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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER K. DEDERIOK, OF LOUDONVILLE, NEW YORK.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,197, dated July 4, 1899.

Application filed February 18, 1893. Serial No. 462,880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER K. DEDERICK, of Loudonville, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain around a bale of any size and tied offa further object being to simplify the manufacture and manner in which the two ends of the band are united and at the same time provide a union which for strength will equal or exceed the strength of the band itself.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be now described, and pointed out particularly in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of the ends of a band constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a view of said ends, showing how one is thrust through the other in the initial step of forming the knot. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the knot completed. Fig. 4 shows the free end doubled for strength.

Like letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The letter A indicates the body of the band, having two distinct and separate loops formed at one end by bending the end of the wire back on itself, twisting the two parts firmly together at B, thus forming the base of the first loop 2) and the front end of the second loop 0, then separating the parts to form the said loop 0, and finally twisting them together at c to form the base of said last-mentioned loop. The loop C may therefore be properly said to be formed in the twisted part of the wire at one end of the band. The shape of the first loop I) is quite immaterial, and is preferably elongated, as shown; but the second or main loop 0 has its sides brought together at a sharp angle by the intermediate twist for the purpose of nipping or binding the free end of the band when strain comes on the band, as will presently appear.

. In making the tie the free end is first passed .down through loop I) and then up through loop '0, as'shown clearly in Fig. 2, the band being then drawn up as tightly as desired and bent back sharply on itself at f right in the angle of the main loop 0. Then the end is tucked under the body of the band in front of the loops and drawn back over the first loop, where it is again bent back on itself at g, and finally may be tucked under the body of the band in rear of the loops. When the strain of the expanding bale draws the band tight, the effect on the tie is to straighten out the sides of the loop 0, causing them to nip the free end at f and also to straighten out said free end over the bend g, forcing the latter down into the loop b and forming a second binding-point, thereby preventing all possibility of the tie giving or slipping under any strains which can be sustained by the body of the band.

Obviously the free end of the band may be doubled, as in Fig. 4, to afiord additional stiffness and strength in the bends without departing from the invention in the least.

ing dimensions, formed of a length of wire having one of its ends doubled back on itself and twisted firmly together at intervals to form a series of eyes having V-shaped corners with an unyielding series of twists between the eyes, and its opposite end formed to pass through a succession of said eyes to a point to determine the dimensions of the band, being then bent back and its extremity confined beneath that portion of the end passing through the first eye; substantially as described.

and a cooperatin g adjustable wrap end adapt- 10 ed to be passed through a succession of said eyes in a direct line; substantially as described.

} PETER K. DEDERICK.

lVitnesses:

ALEX S. STEUART, THOMAS DURANT. 

